<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><span>Playwrights</span> Local</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> &</span><a href="https://www.litcleveland.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Literary Cleveland</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Present</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Just the Facts, Man:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"><span>Documentary</span> <span>Playwriting</span> Workshop</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">With Christopher Johnston</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><a href="https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/just-the-facts-man-documentary-playwriting-workshop" target="_blank">Info/Registration</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">November 1, 8, 15, & 29 | December 6 & 13</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mondays 6:30 – 8:30 pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presented remotely/online via Zoom</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">$180 ($120 for Literary Cleveland members)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">As <span>playwrights</span>, we usually draw from real-life stories to create a narrative <span>play</span>. However, we can also do extensive research and interviews with people on which to build a <span>documentary</span> theater piece about a dynamic individual or a particular group or people, say veterans or victims of domestic violence. We have the option to create characters based on those interviewees or by using the subject’s exact words from an interview transcript in a verbatim piece. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the techniques necessary to research a topic and get comprehensive interviews from which to draw material or language for the docudrama. Each student will develop a shorter piece that can stand on its own or be developed into a one-act or full-length <span>play</span>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration at Literary Cleveland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><a href="https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/just-the-facts-man-documentary-playwriting-workshop" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/just-the-facts-man-<span>documentary</span>-<span>playwriting</span>-workshop</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About the Instructor</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christopher Johnston has written several docudramas based on extensive, in-depth interviewing, including </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sexually Explicit Material</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> about people's sexual experiences and beliefs at Cleveland Public Theatre, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ghosts of War</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> about Vietnam veterans at Dobama Theatre, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My Body is Blue</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> about a victim of domestic violence at Dobama and convergence-continuum, and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Live Bodies for Sale</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> about human trafficking in Northeast Ohio at <span>Playwrights</span> Local.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"># # #</sp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